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Referral marketing has quickly become one of the top marketing channels used by businesses in virtually every industry and market niche. To ensure that your referral program stands out from your competitors, there are several key strategies that you must follow to insure success.

Join us at the BrightTALK Social Media Marketing Summit to discuss some of the best referral marketing strategies to maximize your conversions. We will not only be defining the current referral marketing space, but will be detailing the following strategies for success:

50% of B2B organizations say they are in the “experimenting phase” of influencer marketing, while more than half of B2C companies say they have established programs in place. What are B2B marketers waiting for? The time to establish an influencer marketing program is now, before your competition does!

In this webinar, Alison will explain how she led the creation of the first influencer marketing program at a software company. She will share tips for selecting influencers, creating content, measuring results, and lessons learned from running a B2B influencer program.

It has never been easier reach new audiences thanks to Facebook, but it's harder than ever to drive social engagement. With organic Facebook Page reach at historic lows, it’s increasingly difficult to capture your audience's attention, assuming you're able to reach them in the first place.

Better targeting and engaging creative can overcome these challenges, and testing your content packaging is the best way to learn what resonates most with your target audience in real time. Break through the noise, and get your message right every time you post.

In this webinar, Patrick Costello will share Facebook A/B testing insights, common pitfalls, and strategies for translating test results into meaningful business ROI.

Patrick is the co-founder of Naytev, a social media management and A/B testing platform, and he works with teams of all sizes, including ambitious startups like ClarityMoney, publicly traded incumbents like Travelzoo, and content powerhouses Refinery29, HuffPost, and VICE Media.

Want to leverage multiple Big Data sources to find a precise target audience and convert them into leads and sales?

Facebook may have the answer for you. With a collection of multiple data sources in addition to the incredible amount of data Facebook owns and collects, ​we have more power than ever before to get the right message to the right people at the right time.

Why then is there not an explosion of advertising success through Facebook? While dedicated to supporting its advertisers, Facebook cares most about providing an excellent user experience to its 2 billion monthly active users. Therefore, they have a high level of expectations that advertisers are going to provide the best experience to the people they reach out to.

If you understand how to advertise on Facebook effectively, you can tap into a source of unbelievable potential. If, however, you don't invest serious attention into how to successfully run campaigns on this unique platform, your results will mirror this with lackluster performance and unnecessarily high costs.

Watch this webinar to discover a process to create a high-performing, data-backed advertising campaign in one month's time that surpasses what over 95% of marketing agencies can accomplish.

Adam Hildreth, CEO and Emma Monks, Head of Moderation at Crisp Thinking

You’re working hard to engage with people online and build your brand reputation. But all your hard work can be destroyed by people posting negative, inappropriate or even illegal content on your social media channels or about you on the wider web.

This webinar will outline the risks that brands face online – from everyday hate speech, profanity and abuse, to complaining customers and trending PR crises, right through to the more serious risks such as threats to cause harm and the sharing of illegal content on your channels.

We’ll share the biggest threats we’ve seen brands face from a range of sectors and give you top tips on how to protect your brand online.

What would you know about a person from his email ID or location? How would you understand the person on the other end of the conversation or meeting?

The deep understanding of consumers or customers beyond the superficial layer is soon going to be not just a ‘good to have’ but also a basic hygiene for a successful and long-lasting relationship. Be it striking up a conversation with a prospect, merely handling customer queries, or finding the right candidate to hire for the available marketing role, the use of profile enrichment is finding paramount importance in sustaining healthy engagements with those who matter.

Explore the world of AI and its endless possibilities to know people around you better.

Key takeaways:
- What are AI-built individual deep insights?
- Latest trends in marketing using AI
- How to improve segmentation and personalize communication
- How to take better marketing decisions using a 360-degree individual profile

About the Presenters

Amisha Sethi, Vice President of Global Marketing, Frrole Inc.
Amisha has worked in leadership roles with global giants like Airtel, BlackBerry and Air Asia amongst many others. In addition, a bestselling author of the book "It doesn't hurt to be nice", she is an executive scholar from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago.

Amarpreet Kalkat, CEO & Co-Founder, Frrole Inc
Amar has worked closely with products in reputed firms like Nokia, Trilogy and Hewlett Packard until he found his true passion and co-founded Ciafo. This was the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey and later on, he went to establish Frrole. A Machine Learning aficionado and limit-pusher, he is an MBA graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

1.3 billion people use Facebook Messenger, and every business needs to communicate with their customers on this critical channel. In this webinar, Ben Parr -- Co-founder of Octane AI, Author of Captivology, former Mashable Editor, and Forbes 30 Under 30 -- will dive into specific strategies for generating leads and profits with Messenger marketing and bots.

Businesses will likely need to make a lot of modifications in the way they reach and engage their audiences in 2018 on social media in order to achieve their goals for success.

Social media is set to cause even more disruption as it incorporates new technologies, more governance and new policies. Changes, like worldwide access and use of mobile devices, have empowered social media platforms so that the platforms are even more associated with a business’ overall strategy. As a result, the approach the company takes regarding its social media platforms has the potential to have a ripple effect throughout the organization.

Since the size of social media platforms has grown as well as the diversity of the audience, social media planning will involve more work, more foresight and more input from key staff as well as the social media team. It will mean taking a deeper dive into what has been done in order to know what will need to occur to help propel the company forward.

Social media teams will need to understand what has and what has not worked not only within their business but also with competitors. This will require an understanding of the trends and an awareness of the latest technologies. They may also either want or need to test some technologies as well as different platforms.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to:

- Identify the core platforms that will be useful at their business
- Examine what the business has done on those social media platforms
- Examine what competitors have done over the past year
- Integrate new technologies trends and demographics
- Hold brainstorming sessions with social media team members and other key staff members.
- Compile their activities into their overall social media plan
- Write a strong summary/pitch that demonstrates how the plan will be put into action

Questions will be answered during the webinar, but feel free to send questions prior to event to info@bycomworldwide.com.

Ad fraud isn’t becoming more prevalent -- the fraudsters are just getting slicker. From bot nets to device ID spoofing, the tricks are getting more sophisticated, and raking in more and more cash for the swindlers.

Staying ahead of the fraudster’s learning curve is the key — and collaboration is the crucial element. While vendors and advertisers are directly impacted by fraud, tracking partners provide the technology to help fight fraud – all three players have to work together to circle the wagons.

Making a game plan can be complex, when there are no clear benchmarks for defining or measuring fraud, as each player defines it differently and different benchmarks are needed for each app type, geo, traffic source, and so on.

Join this VB Live event to learn how to tackle that complexity, how to define benchmarks, detect and manage fraud, and work with your partners to circle the wagons against the fraudsters.

Register for free!

You’ll learn:
* Who the stakeholders are, plus why and how is each is affected
* The MMPs’ role in this ecosystem
* What fraud is and what benchmarks should be used for defining it
* How to collaborate to detect and manage fraud on an ongoing basis
* What tools are out there to fight fraud

Getting to deep insights and laser-targeted lead gen programs may seem exhausting considering the amount of data that marketers can collect today. Luckily, machine learning can vastly reduce the time and effort required to extract knowledge and grow your pipeline.

This webinar covers highly precise and efficient ways to boost B2B demand generation. We'll show you how to optimize ads for ABM, improve precision targeting using Machine Learning, and ramp up your sales by using lookalike audiences. You’ll learn about the latest technology and best practices in lead generation and account-based marketing (ABM).

In today’s online driven world, a website is often one of the most important marketing tools for a business. Yet, many websites even lack the most basic search engine optimization (SEO) best practices.

Being able to research, identify and optimize your website for the keywords your potential customers type into Google is crucial to succeeding with SEO. In fact, it’s essential to outrank your competition in the search engines.

Any professional SEO agency will perform in-depth keyword research before starting a project, and so should you. In this 45-minute long online session, Chris Raulf, Founder & President of Boulder SEO Marketing, will present:

• Why you NEED to perform keyword research
• Tools, tools, tools: Keyword research is a (free and paid) tools driven process
• How to research and select the initial list of target SEO keywords and phrases
• How to identify the “low-hanging fruit” keywords that will immediately increase search traffic to your site
• How to put the keywords to work for you
• How to measure the performance and effectiveness of your target SEO keywords

Webinar attendees will learn the concept of keyword research for SEO and be able to measure and monitor the effectiveness of their target SEO keywords.

About Chris Raulf
Chris Raulf is the founder of Boulder SEO Marketing, a boutique digital marketing training and consulting agency located in beautiful Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Chris is an SEO training expert and he teaches students around the globe on how to improve their website’s rankings in Google search results. His international background makes him one of the few professionals in the industry who truly live and breath multilingual search engine optimization on a daily basis.

Learn more about Chris and Boulder SEO Marketing by connecting with him on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisraulf) and Twitter (@swisschris).

Content marketers struggle with creating engaging content. With social media automation tools, most of the hard-lifting on content distribution is solved. The hard thing about content marketing is not marketing, it's the creation. The age-old question still stands true: How to tell an engaging story that creates "know-like-trust" factor with your audience and results in engagement and sales.

In this webinar, we will cover:
1) How to identify which tone of voice is generating high engagement for your brand
2) How to identify the type of story that resonates with your audience?
3) How to identify the style of voice that generates high-engagement for your brand

Increasingly, companies have turned to customer data platforms (CDPs) to help them run more relevant marketing campaigns using the large volume of customer data at their fingertips. Customer-focused software company Atlassian will discuss how they made that decision and the types of complex marketing campaigns that they can now run as a result. Research analyst David Raab will also be on hand to discuss how other companies can use CDPs to harness customer data to increase sales and loyalty.

In this webinar, you will learn:
* Key considerations when deciding to build versus buy a customer data platform
* How companies are taking advantage of CDPs for more relevant communications
* How data science can improve marketing efficacy
* The trends and market factors driving the need for customer data platforms

On its own, “quality” is a subjective term. What’s high-quality to one person might seem mediocre to another. So, how do you ensure the content your company produces is better—and higher-quality—than what your competitors are offering? Simple: You measure quality based on conversion.

After all, you shouldn’t be creating content in a vacuum: each piece you produce should have a purpose beyond merely meeting your—or your company’s—subjective standards for quality.

In this webinar, Charlotte Bohnett and Brooke Andrus will discuss how they’ve leveraged content in a way that not only sets WebPT—a niche healthcare software company—apart from its competitors, but also supports the company’s overarching marketing goals and, most importantly, drives action.

As part of this discussion, the presenters will highlight several key examples of content that have shown immense conversion value, including:

- Themed pillar pages, blog posts, and downloads that work in tandem to capture and retain search traffic as well as drive email submissions

- Free educational webinars that drive genuine lead activity and feature content and design that are far superior to anything else available in the rehab therapy industry—as well as carefully planned and executed promotion and distribution of those webinars

- An industry salary guide download that has generated unprecedented top-of-funnel email submissions—and is easily replicable in most B2B spaces

We spend so much time and money on getting our audience to read our content. But what are we learning about them? And what are our returns on investment?

Content marketing is more than just likes, shares, hits and clicks. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn more about our customers’ personal traits, preferences, needs and challenges – and to translate those insights into personalized pitches that convert like a machine.

Learn how you can use interactive content marketing to engage your audience, capture deeper insights about them and personalize content to maximize conversion. Get inspired with loads of examples and leave with great ideas for your content marketing efforts.

Key takeaways:
• What is interactive content marketing and why are leading brands using it?
• New lead-gen tactics using interactive content
• The 3-step process for higher conversion
• Analyzing your data needs & how to capture it
• How to qualify, segment and deliver high-precision pitches
• Loads of examples and inspiration

BrightTALK and Dot have created this fun little “What Is Your Marketing Superpower?” quiz: https://dot.vu/p/interactive/marketing-superpower-brighttalk/.

Are you a creative genius, data nerd, social media maven or lead-gen machine? Take the quiz to find out (it only takes a minute)! We will be using this quiz as an example to explain some of the concepts, so taking it will also improve your experience while you’re tuned in to the talk.

FinTech is one of the biggest buzzwords these days, and unfortunately this means the market can get quite saturated with content.

How can you grow, nurture and continue to engage a community of professionals who are keen to learn, educate themselves, and stay updated on the latest trends and topics in FinTech and Financial Services?

David and Ina are Senior Content Strategy Managers for BrightTALK's FinTech and Financial Services communities which have over 400,000 members globally. Together, they organise online and offline events where leading experts debate and discuss topics ranging from innovation in payments, blockchain, mobile banking, and more.

Join this session where you will learn:
-What makes good FinTech content?
-How to keep your followers or subscribers engaged and coming back for more
-How to manage conversations where speakers might have opposing views
-How can incumbents create compelling content that helps them better compete with "cooler" challengers?
-How can speakers best position themselves to become credible thought leaders?
-What are the top trending keywords in FinTech that will help your marketing campaigns?
-How can you make the most out of a speaking opportunity?

Your Audience Data is a treasure trove of insights that can deliver premium services to the readers who expect a personal and engaging experience, and the advertisers who are looking for audience segements that convert.

Join Tore Frihagen, EVP of Strategic Alliances at Cxense, Kimmo Kiviluoto, CEO of Enreach and special guest Tor Helge Løvåsen, Head of AdOps at Agderposten Mediagroup, as they dive deep into the gap between what advertisers want and what publishers deliver. On this webinar you'll discover how premium publishers are closing the gap and exceeding advertiser expectations with out-of-the-box, next-generation solutions that provide a win-win for publishers, agencies and ad op teams alike.

Join us on this webinar and learn:
- What are the new challenges with gaining consent for new and existing data.
- How technology and clever copywriting can help with new sign-ups(examples on how to make sign-up both compelling and compliant with GDPR and ePrivacy)
- How to run your own GDPR audit

About Steve Henderson:

With over a decade’s experience, Steve is a data protection and email deliverability specialist and is an expert on the impact of the GDPR to the email marketing industry. Steve has worked with the DMA since 2012 and was elected to the DMA Email Council in 2015.
Steve belongs to the CIPP/E (Certified Institute of Privacy Professionals – Europe), the CIPT (Certified Institute of Privacy Technologists) and was recently awarded the IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy.